NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ANNOUNCES FIRST PROJECTS TO RECEIVE NATIONAL CREATION FUND INVESTMENTS
June 14, 2018 – OTTAWA (Canada) – The National Arts Centre today announced the first nine projects that will be receiving investments totaling $1.4 million from the National Creation Fund, a new initiative that supports the development of bold and ambitious Canadian work in music, theatre, dance and inter-disciplinary performing arts.
The projects are:
- Eve 2050 (Van Grimde Corps Secrets, Montreal)
- The Full Light of Day (Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver)
- The Hockey Sweater: A Musical (The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal)
- Mînowin (Dancers of Damelahamid, Vancouver)
- Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma (Carte Blanche, Québec)
- The Storyville Mosquito (Kid Koala, Montreal)
- Treemonisha (Volcano Theatre, Toronto)
- Unikkaaqtuat (Les 7 doigts de la main, Montreal, Artcirq, Igloolik and Taqqut Productions, Iqaluit)
- who we are in the dark (Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Toronto)
THE PROJECTS
Eve 2050
Conceived and directed by Isabelle Van Grimde, Eve 2050 is a triptych that combines dance and digital technologies to draw a multi-layered portrait of Eve in 2050. The work includes an interactive web series, a performative installation, and a stage production.
The Full Light of Day
The Full Light of Day is a provocative live film / theatre experiment for the stage which looks crucial choices facing Canadians today – how to live, love and die in a world in transition. Bold characters, bracing text, wit, and suspense all mix together in this new script by award-winning artist Daniel Brooks. Daniel joins forces with Electric Company Theatre founding artist and director Kim Collier in this new work for Canadian stages and beyond.
The Hockey Sweater: A Musical
Based on the classic Canadian short story by author Roch Carrier, The Hockey Sweater: A Musical premiered in Montreal last fall to great acclaim. The cast of 17 includes eight young actors who sing, dance and skate their way through the production. The creative team led by Emil Sher, Jonathan Munro and Donna Feore is now getting back together to redevelop elements of the show as it continues on its path to becoming an enduring family musical for the country, and beyond.
Mînowin
Directed and choreographed by Margaret Grenier, Mînowin is a new dance work from one of the country’s leading Indigenous companies. The piece integrates narrative, motion, song, performance and multi-media design to immerse the audience in a narrative that illustrates moments of connection, understanding and renewal.
Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma
Writer and director Christian Lapointe has translated Martin Crimp’s play The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from the Cinema, a radical re-working of Euripides’ The Phoenician Women. The play features a large cast that will take part in an extended creative residency before the production’s premiere in Montreal this fall.
The Storyville Mosquito
Kid Koala, the world-renowned DJ, producer, performer and graphic novelist, brings his creative talents to an innovative new stage performance. Using puppets, miniature sets, multiple cameras and screens, a team of performers, foley artists and technicians will bring to life the story of a young mosquito who leaves his small town to seek fame and fortune in the big city.
Treemonisha
Volcano Theatre, in association with the Moveable Beast Collective, has brought together an international creative team to reinvent the ground-breaking opera Treemonisha by legendary ragtime composer Scott Joplin. With a new libretto, orchestration and arrangement, the opera’s themes of feminism and politics have been extended and updated, deepening the work’s impact and restoring Joplin’s voice to its rightful place as central to a North American Black Classical canon.
Unikkaaqtuat
Led by Les 7 doigts de la main, Artcirq and Taqqut Productions, Unikkaaqtuat is a major multidisciplinary production blending circus arts, music, theatre, and video projection. Inspired by Inuit founding myths and illustrated by the world-renowned artist Germaine Arnaktauyok, this unprecedented creation will highlight the Inuit people, their traditions, and vision for the future, through a collaborative and mutually respectful process bringing Inuit and non-Inuit artists together.
who we are in the dark
Choreographed by acclaimed Canadian dance artist Peggy Baker, who we are in the dark offers the immediacy of daring contemporary dance, supercharged live music, and sophisticated design elements from artists working with pigment, projection and light. Peggy’s largest project to date features seven outstanding dancers and live music performed by Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara.